Thursday, November 14, 2013

Visual spanking stories analysis: bed-caning

No: it's the cane itself, of course, caught as it actually is inflicting punishment on her bottom.

Directly after the arresting sight of the bottom in mid-chastisement, though, comes for me the bed and the domestic setting: pillows, coverlet, her clothing (or lack of it!) and jewelry. Transferring the ultimate schoolroom implement to the bedroom and putting the chastised female body into nice party-level underwear (bra, garter-belt, stockings) says to me that the husband (as I can't help thinking of the unseen cane-wielder) holding the cane feels the need to teach a lesson.

I think for me the cane is always for teaching a lesson: that's where the lovely marks on her bottom come in, and make me think of my unquenchable arousal at so many pictures and prose depictions of young women contemplating their crimes as they lie in bed, feeling the cane's terrible work on their posteriors, gently rubbing the stripes made by the firm guiding hand of authority. Always, of course, these young women are ashamed of how aroused they become as they think about their canings; almost always, they find themselves unable to refrain from repeating their lewd activities even as they still feel the smart of the retribution those activities called down.

Last, the position of the arms speaks eloquently of a girl's need to rub, but of the the stern measures that she knows will be taken if she tries: the tension of her arms resonates with the tension that flows through the entire scene. Somehow the way her arms are shaped tells you that her feet are kicking, too. Such helpless efforts in the face of painful, shameful discipline only further charm the viewer--for of course she will take her punishment, no matter how she kicks.

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Emily Tilton, whose books have hit number one on Amazon in four different erotica categories, wishes she could live out her fantasies of submission the way her characters do.

Emily's erotica is a narrative version of her nearly lifelong quest to reconcile her submissive erotic orientation with her ethics. She writes erotica, not erotic romance: her books are about sex, because writing about sex helps her understand that fundamental part of her life better. She hopes maybe it does the same for her readers.

Over the many years since Emily became aware of her sometimes unbearable craving for ravishment, spanking, and above all anal domination, she has tried to come to terms with that craving in more ways than she can count. The first of the ways was by reading, voraciously, every piece of BDSM erotica she could find.

Eventually, she read Story of O. As is reflected throughout her work, it changed her life, though the change has been gradual, and continues to this day. The idea that other women might share the lusts she has by turns been ashamed of and defiantly proud of, that a woman like the real Pauline Réage might write so beautifully of those lusts, and work them out so thoroughly and even pitilessly on a character, put Réage's famous pencil in her right hand. Or, to put it in the terms of EXPLORATIONS, which she considers her magnum opus, it put her left hand on the keyboard of her laptop and her right hand in her lap, if you know what she means. Emily started to write spanking stories.